Great comic books/graphic novels

[DinoDoc]

The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Daredevil Legends Vol. II: Born Again
Batman: Year One
Squadron Supreme What Watchmen should have been IMO
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Ignore the movie of the same name
Kingdom Come is pretty good IMO
Batman: The Long Halloween Excellent mystery

[Guynemer]

I did enjoy LXG and The Long Halloween, but not as much as those I listed in the OP.

[MOBIUS]

One of my all time favourites is Marshal Law, By Kevin O'Neill and Pat Mills (ABC Warriors, Charley's War, Nemesis, Slaine, etc): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshal_Law

I grew up with 2000AD, which has spawned literally hundreds of excellent strips, including the most famous: Judge Dredd. You can buy these in the form of Titan Books collections - I expect they're available in that format in the US.

Anything by Alan Moore, obviously.

[Kuciwalker]

Read Sandman.

[Lord Avalon]

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns; The Dark Knight Strikes Again, by Frank Miller

Hellboy; B.P.R.D., by Mike Mignola

Modesty Blaise, by Peter O'Donnell (was actually a serial comic strip from the London Evening Standard; also carried for a time by the Detroit Free Press; Titan Books has published 17 volumes so far at 3 story arcs per)

[Boris Godunov]

I'm not sure I'd keep going to see a doctor if I found out he still read comic books...

[Kuciwalker]

Even if he had a really nice mattress?

[Guynemer]

[Elok]

Saw the Watchmen movie on cable tonight, except for fifteen minutes I had to miss near the beginning. What a glorious festival of mindless violence and pretentious utterances that was. But it wasn't nearly as horrible as my wife said it would be (silly girl, she went and saw the movie without ever having read the comic, expecting to be able to make sense of it).

[Guynemer]

Hope you didn't miss the opening credits. Legitimately, greatest opening credits sequence in American film history. Sadly, downhill from there.

[Elok]

No, I saw the opening credits sequence before being called away by dinner. It was pretty damned good, though after a while you wonder how many verses that Bob Dylan song has. Also, I disagree with you regarding the Silk Spectre; those were nice but unremarkable knockers. Her back end was superior to her front. Can't really say regarding her acting ability, because, y'know, I can't read facial expressions all that effectively anyway. It wasn't horrible enough for me to wince, like Orlando Bloom in Lord of the Rings, nor good enough for me to go wow, like Forrest Whittaker in Last King of Scotland. She was somewhere in that unfathomable middle.

WRT Comedian and Rorschach, were they particularly good performers or was it just that they were the two most emotionally complex characters? I mean, Silk Spectre just has to act like an upset woman for the most part, and she's a distant third on that scale. Dr. Manhattan acts detached and distant, Nite Owl sits around projecting "hapless dork," and Veidt is a cold douchebag supervillain. Typically the despondent nihilist and the savage pharisee are the only two with real emotional material. Which is to be expected; it's a book of ideas.

[Guynemer]

True enough, those are the two most interesting characters.

And her cans are great; as is the backside. A veritable feast for the eyes. The thing is, she's not normally a bad actress; she was just miscast. She's actually a quite funny comedic actress.

[ddenleyy88]

There are some list of best comic books and graphic novels :-
Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness: Volume 3
The Walking Dead Volume 12
Tamara Drewe
The Complete MAUS
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[DaShi]

The ending of Watchmen was actually its worst part. They essentially flipped all their readers the bird by foisting off complete nonsense:

Spoiler:

We find out that Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias has spent the past several years supervising a secret team of scientists and psychics and probably some other people I forgot, all in a hidden base in Antarctica. They've genetically engineered a gigantic, telepathic octopus-thing and built a working teleportation device. Rorschach and Nite Owl arrive too late to stop him from teleporting it into the middle of Manhattan. The shock of teleportation kills it, and its psychic death-cry kills everyone in the city. The theory is that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. will regard this as a sign of an alien invasion and band together to face it. Dr. Manhattan and Nite Owl actually think this is a pretty good plan, but Rorschach demands that the people of the world deserve to know the truth and Manhattan vaporizes him to keep him from blabbing. And they all sort of live happily ever after, IIRC.

No, I didn't make any of that up. I didn't see the movie, but I'm told they upgraded it to the more believable "fake Dr. Manhattan going crazy and killing a ton of people." Conversely, I did see the movie of V for Vendetta, and that made the comic seem almost brilliant by comparison.

Believe it or not, I wasn't all that offended by Preacher. I just read a few pages before I figured, "hey, gratuitous blasphemy + gratuitous nudity = profit." More power to them. Besides, the theology was so out there that it was hard to really be offended by it. Anyway, the story wasn't bad. I read a couple of volumes of my brother's, enjoyed it but didn't feel compelled to find out how it ended.

I did like Harbinger (unusually talky, character-centered superhero comic series from the early nineties), though I never got to read more than the first four episodes. I guess I'm not a comics person, really.

In the last book of Harry Potter:

Spoiler:

Harry is killed by Voldemort!!!

However, it's kind of cheap because Harry doesn't really die. Instead Voldemort just ends up killing the horcrux inside Harry. Thus, yet again Harry is covered in a deux ex machina shield that makes him impervious to any harm.